In 1993, Hong Kong's film production peaked, reaching a staggering 380, of which 33 films with martial arts themes alone, accounting for nearly 10% of the annual film production, so this year is known as the "Year of Martial Arts" in Hong Kong films.
At the same time, 1993 is also known as the "Year of Huang Feihong", because the two Huang Feihong films cooperated by Xu Ke and Jet Li have been successful in the first two years, so that a large number of derivative works of "Huang Feihong" have sprung up like mushrooms in this year, and Xu Ke alone has filmed "Huang Feihong No. 3: The Lion King's Battle", "Huang Feihong No. 4: The Wind of the King" and "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse" Three Huang Feihong films, and after leaving Jiahe, Jet Li also filmed "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede" for Yongsheng.
Among these four films, "The Lion King" had the best market performance, ranking sixth in the Hong Kong box office list that year with a box office performance of 27.46 million Hong Kong dollars.
With the help of Xu Ke's east wind, Zhang Xinyan, the director who has cooperated with Jet Li in "Shaolin Temple" and "Shaolin Kid", can't stand loneliness, and in the same year launched a follow-up work "Huang Feihong's Boy As a Newspaper", starring Jet Li's brother Wang Qun. Ji Chunhua, Huang Yishan, Qiu Jianguo and other classic supporting roles helped.
The film's action scenes are remarkable, but unfortunately, after its release, it only received 480,000 Hong Kong dollars at the box office, becoming the lowest box office wong film that year.
After Yuan Heping designed the action for "Boy Be Self-Strengthening", he directed a "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse" with Xu Ke's script. This film is an underrated work by the market, bringing together Zhen Zidan, Yu Rongguang, Zeng Simin, Ren Shiguan, Yuan Xinyi and many other stars, from the storyline to the action design are remarkable, and finally only earned 6.18 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
In the same year, Yuan Heping led Jet Li's brother Wang Jue, his sister Wang Xiuping, and his apprentice Zhen Zidan to shoot another film "Hero Haojie Su Qi'er". The film rarely makes Huang Feihong and Su Qi'er in the same frame, although Wang Jue directly copied Jet Li's version of Huang Feihong's appearance, but unfortunately the audience did not buy it, and the final box office was only 7.01 million.
"Huang Feihong's Ghost Foot Seven" directed by Noon Ma only rubbed the IP of "Huang Feihong" on the title, Yuan Biao played Ghost Foot Seven, Noon Ma played Tooth Rub Su, Yuan Hua played the villain, the action scene was hard bridge hard horse, but unfortunately the story lacked novelty, and finally only received 7.6 million box office.
Li Lizhi's "Huang Feihong vs. Huang Feihong" takes the subversive spoof route. Not only are there real and fake Huang Feihong, obscene thirteen aunts, but also a handful of Ding Crab and Fang Zhanbo in "Big Time". The film eventually grossed HK$10.55 million, which was a relatively successful Wong Fei Hung film that was more successful in the market that year.
Looking at several Huang Feihong films that have hit the street at the box office, in fact, they have the same characteristics, that is, the martial arts scenes are excellent, the overall production is rough, the plot and characters lack novelty, and 8 Huang Feihong films a year have caused the audience's aesthetic fatigue, and the box office is naturally not too high.
In 1993, the collapse of many Hong Kong martial arts films proved that blindly following the trend is not a box office elixir, and the vicious competition between film companies and the shoddy production of film content have led to high-quality works such as "The Demon Cult Leader", "Iron Horse", "A Knife In the City", "Barefoot Boy" and other high-quality works being buried by the market.
With the massive invasion of Hollywood blockbusters, the loss of the Hong Kong film market has become an indisputable fact, this year Spielberg with his special effects blockbuster "Jurassic Park" to win 61.9 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, stealing the box office champion throne that Has been occupied for many years on The Double Monday. Although 1993 was a year of hong kong martial arts films, it was also a year in which Hong Kong films were in jeopardy.
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